NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS - Scientists have created nanotube transistors that can
outperform silicon in chips. The discovery indicates that nanotubes, 50,000 times as thin as
a hair, could be used when it is no longer possible to shrink silicon designs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/technology/20NANO.html?todaysheadlines

BUILDING A LIFELIKE HUMAN BODY FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS - The Living
Anatomy Program is building a synthetic human body that creators hope will provide medical
students with a lifelike model, one that looks, feels, and behaves like a real human. David
Fineberg, who directs the project at the University of Buffalo, said the goal is a model that
medical students can use to practice surgical procedures, including the vital tactile training
used, for example, in separating "an adhesion between two pieces of intestine." The model will
work with surgical tools, including scalpels and scissors, that mimic the sensations of actually
cutting and snipping flesh. See: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/start.html?pg=7
(Wired Magazine, 1 June 02)

FROM SLIDE SHOWS TO INTERACTIVE CD-ROMS - Interactive Solutions Inc.'s
MovieWorks Deluxe version 5.2 is a multimedia authoring suite that combines video, sound,
animation and image-editing tools with a time-based, object-oriented sequencing and authoring
program. See: http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=19604

GRAPHICS DEVELOPED TO ADD TO REAL-LIFE - Researchers at Columbia University
are developing graphics technology applications that work in conjunction with the real world
rather than replacing it. The technology involves a display worn on the head and a computer in
a backpack. Users can see through the head piece, while the computer adds information that
can augment the user's perception and understanding of his surroundings. For example, a
construction worker might wear the device working at a construction site to "see" locations
of pipes and wiring that are behind walls or underground. Funding for the research comes in
part from the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. Go to:
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17735.html (NewsFactor Network, 14 May 02)

- IBM eLIZA PLAN - IBM has begun the second phase in its eLiza plan to build computers
that can anticipate and recover from problems without human intervention. The company's
Enterprise Workload Manager software governs not just single servers, but groups of servers,
monitoring the machines and shifting work among them. Selected IBM customers will be able
to try the workload management software later this year. The software will be available on
mainframes and Unix, Windows and Linux servers in 2003. IBM will also announce several
eLiza components for individual servers, available earlier than the Enterprise Workload
Manager. IBM competitor Sun Microsystems announced "N1" earlier this year, which treats
groups of computers like a single pool of processing and storage power. In addition,
Hewlett-Packard plans a "utility data center" to simplify management of data centers. See:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-897080.html (CNET, 1 May 02)